OT: Shuttle. This one not a hoax..........

[Avery Todd]

And you're posting this why??????????????

Avery

At 03:12 PM 03/16/03 -0800, you wrote:
>After the explosion I heard an NPR interview with a
>NASA scientist who admitted that shuttle expeditions
>have a:  "1 in 137 chance of fatal collission with a
>piece of space junk ".
>      Gee. I wonder if they tell the astronauts?
>      Or the funding arm of Congress?
>At $400 million a launch, and killing seven humans
>every 137 trips, I can not support this program.
>      Thump